Senator Merkley on China’s Erasure of Tibetan, Mongolian, and Uyghur Cultures
Senator Merkley questioned witnesses during a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing titled “The Preservation of Memory: Combatting the CCP’s Historical Revisionism and Erasure of Culture” on December 5, 2024. Watch the full hearing: https://www.cecc.gov/events/hearings/preservation-memory-combating-ccps-historical-revisionism-and-erasure-culture
Merkley, Jayapal, Tlaib Introduce Congressional Resolution Raising Awareness of Chemical Disasters in the United States & Abroad
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12) today introduced a bicameral resolution designating December 3rd as National Chemical Disaster Awareness Day. The resolution spotlights the ongoing crisis of chemical disasters nationwide and marks the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster,
We need oversight for TSA’s facial recognition system.
I’m pushing for rigorous oversight of TSA’s facial recognition system—the building blocks for a national surveillance state. Remember: you can opt out!
Merkley, Whitehouse, Welch y Huffman: en el INC-5, Estados Unidos debe defender un acuerdo para abordar el ciclo de vida completo de los plásticos
Washington, DC – El senador estadounidense de Oregon Jeff Merkley, acompañado por los senadores estadounidenses Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Peter Welch (D-VT) y el representante estadounidense Jared Huffman (D-CA-02), envió hoy una carta al Secretario de Estado de los EE. UU., Antony Blinken, y a la presidenta del Consejo de Calidad Ambiental, Brenda Mallory, pidiendo que Estados Unidos use su influencia
Merkley: Global Plastics Crisis Requires Global Action
Senator traveling to Busan, South Korea, to help shape global plastic pollution agreement Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley—a leading voice in Congress on the urgent need to address the plastic pollution crisis—today issued the following statement before traveling to the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) in Busan,
Merkley Statement on Vote to Block Offensive Arms Sales to the Netanyahu Government
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after the Senate held votes on Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to halt U.S. sales of certain offensive weapons used in Gaza by the Netanyahu government: “While Israel
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